Download a file, displaying progress bar

> Hi drtau,
>
> > Is there any way in Dolphin to get it to download a file from
> > the Internet and display a progress bar for the download?  I
>
> I have been able to do this in two ways. The first is by using the Web
> Browser control to download the file I want. This has a status event
> #onProgressChange:ProgressMax: which I hook up to a simple subclass of
> ProgressDialog, which gives me the added benefit of being able to cancel the
> operation. You can see this working in the applet at
> http://www.chartexplorer.com/seti/applet.htm (once the applet is loaded,
> click on "download").
>
> The second method is by using the wininet library. I have been working on a
> wrapping of this library, and I was about to ask if anybody was interested
> in testing it. While I have not done an applet with http, I do have a toy
> FTP client working as a demo applet with full status information.
>
> If you are interested in testing this email me (swaring at ozemail dot com
> dot au)
>
> Thanks,
> Steve

> Hi drtau,
>
> Try this;
>
> control := AXControlSite progId: 'Shell.Explorer'.
> control firesControlEvents: true.
> control isTracingEvents: true. "This prints the events on the transcript"
> webBrowser := control controlDispatch queryInterface: IWebBrowser2.
> webBrowser navigate: 'http://www.amazon.com'
>
> Once the navigation is complete, you can then ask the webBrowser interface,
> for a "document". This answers an instance of IDispatch which you can again
> use #queryInterface: on to get an interface which allows you to access the
> document. I have typically used this to download HTML, so I have generated
> some of the MSHTML interfaces, and to access this;
>
> document := webBrowser document queryInterface: MSHTMLIHTMLDocument2
>
> Check out; http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/browser/default.asp
> It covers using both the WebBrowser control, and the document interfaces.
>
> If you want to explore the WebBrowser control you can use the
> WebBrowserShell. However, as the example above shows, it does not need to be
> used visually.
>
> > > operation. You can see this working in the applet at
> > > http://www.chartexplorer.com/seti/applet.htm (once the applet is loaded,
> > > click on "download").
>
> Not a great example at the moment; apparently Seti's cable connection to the
> internet was physically severed in a prank, and the server is unreachable
> for a couple of days. (Hopefully you got a nice error message!)
>
> Hope this helps, If you have any questions, please ask,
> Steve